To Do: Weekend Distractions
Friday
1. McSweeney's/Believer contributors Stephen Elliot and Josh Bearman (also of the L.A. Weekly) will be at Skylight Books' debate-watching party and discuss Elliot's book Looking Forward To It after the forensic carnage. Also: They promise some cheap beer!
2. Watch the Dodgers cling to their fleeting hopes in their game against the mashing Cardinals. If you don't manage to scalp a ticket, you can always skulk down the hill to the Short Stop and watch the game.
3. Ray Charles channeler Jamie Foxx hosts the tribute “Genius: A Tribute to Ray Charles," featuring appearances by just about every musician that's played with, been inspired by, or pretended to be influenced by the legendary musician at Staples Center.
Saturday
4. Show up, sit down, and drop acid at the Psychedelic Picnic at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. But don't blame us if you spent the next eight hours thinking Rudolph Valentino's zombie is trying to eat your popcorn.
5. The mellow, sexually-suggestive sounds of Norah Jones float around the Hollywood Bowl; Hilary Duff's boyfriend's band, Good Charlotte, is totally doing an obligatory Tower Sunset in-store performance.
Sunday
6. Join porn stars and the people that pay to wander among them and paw neoprene replicas of their naughty parts at Adultcon in the L.A. Convention Center. We're sure Fleshbot will have coverage on Monday if you don't make it out.